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Advanced Course in Yogi Philosophy and Oriental Occultism438
the conclusion that Matter is the Absolute thing, ignoring the fact that it is
but the relative manifestation of something behind it—the Absolute Being.
Physical Science has analyzed matter until it has been able to classify it into
about seventy classes, called “elements,” which it has assumed to be ultimate,
that is, incapable of further analysis or division. The Yogi Philosophy teaches
that all these so-called elements are but forms of one element—that there
is but one form of matter, as may be found when chemistry reaches a higher
stage of development. Modern science is reaching the same conclusion,
although it has not been able to positively demonstrate it by experiment.
Then science has assumed that Matter is composed of minute atoms,
not visible to the sight, and that the Ultimate Atom is incapable of further
division, and is therefore the “real thing” in matter. Some have held that this
Ultimate Atom is the Absolute, from which all the elements, and then all
the forms of matter have sprung, and also all that we call Energy and Mind
are incidents and qualities of this Atom. They would have made this Atom
their God, but alas! still more recent discoveries have shown them that their
Ultimate Atom is not ultimate at all, and they are now hunting for another
Ultimate Something in Matter. They will find, as did the Yogis thousands of
years before, that when they reach their “Ultimate” in Matter it will dissolve
and melt into Force and Energy, and then they must hunt for their Ultimate
atom of Force. Advanced science has hinted at this very fact within the last
few years, and we may expect the fact to be accepted generally before
very long. When the scientists then probe Force or Energy until they find
its “Ultimate,” they will come to a melting point when the elusive Force will
dissolve into Mind-substance, and that back of “Mind-substance” is the
Absolute. But that is a long way off for the physical scientist, although an old
fact for the Yogis.
We have reached the end of our space, and must postpone the further
consideration of Matter until the next lesson.